Century Quote by Stendhal

“It is a human characteristic, which has been richly exploited in every era, that while hope of survival is still alive in a man,…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“A man who takes into consideration the feelings of others even when arranging the manner of his own death shows a nobility of character…

— Flann O'Brien

In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking…

— Colin Wilson

An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.

— Emile M. Cioran

During the nineteenth century, men died believing in the cause of royalty or republicanism. In reality, much of their sacrifice was rendered on the…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“It was like being a prisoner on death row who survives month after month and becomes accustomed to the life, while he registers with…

— Bernhard Schlink

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Bah, bah!’ cried the old man petulantly. ‘Human nature is the same in all ages and countries. Every day—every city—produces some monstrous wickedness, secret…

— John William Polidori

When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are,…

— Aristotle

Then, casting a glance on the handsome young man, who was scarcely twenty-five years of age, and whom he was leaving in his gore,…

— Anonymous

“Mankind has never been in this position before. Without having improved appreciably in virtue or enjoying wiser guidance, it has got into its hands…

— Winston Churchill

“Deeds of heroism are wrought here more than those of romance, when, defying torture, and braving death itself, the fugitive voluntarily threads his way…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe